I was waiting for that one!
I don't know. Does that mean it should not be done?
It sounds like a particularly silly idea - but, there again, so does the burying of pipework in concrete floors which seems to have become quite fashionable with 'recent builds'. Although I can't currently think of where, there surely must be something in the regs about this? Anyone?
I'd consider mechanical protection as barrier made of a material that will resist fixing attempts appropriate for the material it is embedded in. So for example in a masonary wall I would think mechanical protection should protect against masonary nails and masonary drills.
That would be reasonable (even though the regs don't actually say that). Are you therefore suggesting that the mechanical protection always has to be made out of a material different from the materials of which the wall is constructed (e.g. metal protection would not be acceptable in a metal partition wall)?
Fair enough. I'll therefore re-phrase what I wrote to read "e.g. metal protection would not be acceptable in a partition wall constructed using the same metal".
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